Principles and Heresies

The Wrong Alarm

There has been a good deal of to-do in. the press lately about the rate at which the Soviet Union is training scientists and technologists, and about our “dangerous lag” in this respect. Eminent educationists shake their heads gravely about it, as they agitate for federal aid to education. Columnists and bureaucrats’ dwell upon it as evidence of “the new challenge to American democracy in the epoch of coexistence.”